Jun 23 2011 effort to remove judge shows bold Trump legal tactics By Jake Pearson and Chad Day, Associated Press Five years before Donald Trump accused a federal judge of bias against him in a Trump University lawsuit, the New York billionaire tried to get another judge pulled from a case. Continue reading
Jun 23 Amid guns sit-in, House passes $1.1 billion Zika defense bill By Andrew Taylor, Associated Press The House has passed a $1.1 billion House-Senate measure to combat the Zika virus, but the GOP-drafted measure is a nonstarter with Senate Democrats and the Obama White House. Continue reading
Jun 23 Trump to check on golf courses in Scotland By Jonathan Lemire, Associated Press Facing questions about meager fundraising, slipping poll numbers and campaign instability, Donald Trump is tending to business — in Scotland. Continue reading
Jun 23 C-SPAN uses social media feeds to cover sit-in protest By David Bauder, Associated Press With the cameras it uses to cover Congress shut off, C-SPAN turned to social media feeds on to beam live coverage of the House Democrat's sit-in to demand votes on gun control legislation. Continue reading
Jun 22 Watch 52:56 PBS NewsHour full episode June 22, 2016 By PBS News Hour Wednesday on the NewsHour, Britain prepares for Thursday’s vote to exit the European Union. Also: The IMF’s dire conclusions on the U.S. economy, Congress and President Obama reach a rare accord on toxic chemicals, a teen prodigy may give speech… Continue watching
Jun 22 Watch 9:01 Will the United Kingdom embark upon a 'painful divorce' from the EU? By PBS News Hour After weeks of debate, the moment has arrived for Great Britain to decide whether it will remain part of the European Union. Supporters of the ‘stay’ movement say it’s imperative to be globally connected, while opponents argue too much revenue… Continue watching
Jun 22 Watch 2:34 On the House floor, a very personal rebuke of the Stanford rapist's sentence By PBS News Hour While the Capitol Hill debate over gun control has dominated headlines since the Orlando shooting, it’s hardly the only issue on lawmakers’ minds. The light sentence Stanford swimmer Brock Turner received for raping an unconscious woman has also struck a… Continue watching
Jun 22 Watch 8:43 News Wrap: House Democrats hold sit-in to demand gun vote; DOJ alleges Medicare fraud By PBS News Hour In our news wrap Wednesday, after Republican lawmakers rejected four gun control proposals on Monday, nearly 100 Congressional Democrats staged a sit-in, refusing to leave until they secured a vote on gun legislation. Also, the Department of Justice announced it… Continue watching
Jun 22 Watch 6:26 Congress, Obama find accord on regulation of household chemicals By PBS News Hour President Obama reached a rare agreement with Congress on a new law to regulate toxic household chemicals. The legislation, signed Wednesday, will give the EPA the authority to vet and ban tens of thousands of substances potentially harmful to humans,… Continue watching
Jun 22 Key security features disabled on Clinton's server after technical glitch By Michael Biesecker and Ted Bridis, Associated Press State Department staffers wrestled for weeks in December 2010 over a serious technical problem with then-Secretary Hillary Clinton's home email server, causing them to temporarily disable security features that left the server more vulnerable to hackers, according to emails released… Continue reading